Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Morison, S.E,: ca. 1990 UK, softcover, 680 pages, illustrated and with folding-out maps. “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” is Samuel Eliot Morison’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Christopher Columbus that blends archival scholarship with the author’s own re-sailing of Columbus’s routes to recreate the four voyages and Columbus’s seamanship, ambitions, governance failures, and historical impact. Morison portrays Columbus as a gifted navigator but flawed colonizer, situating his achievements and controversies within 15th‑century maritime realities and Spain’s imperial aims. ISBN 9780316584784 In good condition